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South Pacific
| Deity: | Pat Loney |
| Start Date: | May 12, 1997 |
| End Date: | July 31, 1997 (80 days) |
| Code used: | Wolfpack 4.0.9 |
| Winner(s): | None (game died) |
April 28, 1997
Faces (and landscapes) are still glowing from the highly entertaining Exorcism I. Well, in the interest of global conquest, it's time to start the next game. And I call it South Pacific. The details of the game are pretty much written in stone. However I am only going to tell you a few of them. Just rest assured that the game will be more than interesting. And somewhat different from the run of the mill games.
And the details are:
1 - 60 etu update per day at noon EDT.
No weekend update, though I will have weekend play enabled.
Fixed tech (that means tech levels never change)
As the name suggests, the game will be an island based game with a strong emphasis on carriers. Battleships and crusiers have been weakened while carriers and their planes have been strengthened. And they will be necessary for expansion.
So if you are asking yourself "I wonder how I can get in on this great sounding game" just send $5 to (opps, that was a different post). Ahhhhh, just send me the usual information:
prefered e-mail address:
country name:
password (8 char limit please):
skill level (1-10):
Oh, we will be using 4.0.9 code btw. And the top 5 countries are invited to Sean Eddy's appartment after the game is over to drink all his beer and chase his sheep.
Pat
AKA Overlord
Last Call:
This is the last call for players for the South Pacific Game. If you
would like to play, fill out the form below and send it in. If you have
already sent in a registration and do not see your name on the list below,
please resend it. And now for the game particulars:
Game starts may 12.
First update is may 13.
Updates are at noon, EDT.
No weekend updates but there will be weekend play.
Version 4.0.9
Host is 149.84.128.9 (and will soon have a real IP name too).
Port is 6104.
Registration ends Sunday morning, May 11.
Features of the game:
30 sector start islands with one country per island.
Augmented aircraft carrier capability and decreased capital ship capability
Fixed tech levels (ie, the tech level you start the game with is what
you end up with).
There are also lots of other "features" in this game that are, to my
knowledge, 100% unique that will make this game stand out as a one of a
kind. Suffice to say that newer players and the more skilled players
should like the setup. But, you will have to find out what they are for
yourself. I'm not telling.
And here is the famous form:
Prefered e-mail address:
Country Name:
Password (8 char limit please):
Skill Level:
And the current list of players is...
Tiki Malx XOX Metallica ... Yak BoraBora Minnehaha Kinch deadmeat Fido LastOutpost Aarrgghh Klingelknopf Reality int Byzantium Mhu Vanuata beep Terranova Oktoberfest Holsation Predator MrRed Blicksville Angband Savoia Schytia Park_Place Plundaria
Hope to see you in the game
Pat
AKA Overlord
PS Somebody sent me an e-mail about their forgotten password. Ummmm,
could you please resend that?
(Written by Daniel Mytelka)
I'm sure that everyone has played in a game in which somebody reached 1300 planes. Or someone had 30,000 mil. Maybe even both. Welcome to South Pacific, where such stats don't even make the top 10 (11th of 16 viables).
South Pacific started with an interesting premise: everyone started at tech 151, and further tech changes were virtually impossible, and wouldn't lead to further tech toys (other than bridges, tantalizingly out of reach at 152). Everyone started on a 27 sector start island with one golden mountain and two lightly oiled sectors; massively armed but passively defended "Mirkwood" mini-islands separated the combatants, with islands spaced by about seven sectors. Mil were payed for by one civ, all resources were renewable, and units were substantially weakened.
Parsing and his ally Ratsnest (UUCP) were the first to discover a critical feature of these parameters: it was worth it to stick 5000 mil on the mountain to pump out renewable dust and build up a large bars stash. Tedrick (...) was first to realize what they were doing, and eventually became their chief opponent. Meanwhile, various strategies were being employed with some success to take over the Mirkwood islands (first broached by Parsing), which turned out to be of little value other than
as staging points or outposts.
While some continued to wage war on the intervening islands, the foresighted few sought nobler prey, advancing towards the critical limiting resource: the home island mountains. Others chose a course of least time commitment, choosing to massively fortify home islands without expanding (over 75,000 mines have been layed in this game).
After about a month, the top ten stood as follows (recall that Mirkwood is just the diety islands):
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Parsing 135 94% 70K 22K 3.6K 580 3.8K 19K 2.1K 1.7K 150 160 70 25K
Ratsnest 170 95% 67K 14K 4.6K 900 6.5K 24K 1.1K 1.9K 180 90 40 90K
Cathouse 120 98% 89K 10K 2.7K 505 13K 17K 700 950 210 60 50 25K
... 135 100% 84K 20K 1.8K 425 3.7K 6.9K 1.0K 450 40 120 10 30K
Mirkwood 350 100% 0 10K 5.3K 1.2K 1.9K 0 0 0 810 0 0 470K
Predator 115 99% 63K 14K 4.0K 750 5.0K 13K 1.0K 1.3K 140 90 40 50K
Klingelkn 115 95% 66K 15K 4.4K 655 4.2K 14K 1.0K 2.8K 150 90 20 15K
Dristonia 100 98% 54K 4.5K 3.3K 645 3.1K 4.2K 350 800 140 60 10 2.0K
Park Plac 80 97% 43K 8.0K 3.5K 610 1.1K 22K 250 1.6K 90 60 20 15K
int 25 100% 25K 10K 2.4K 260 2.5K 3.6K 1.0K 1.0K 220 9 40 20K
Minnehaha 90 93% 44K 6.8K 2.5K 455 2.0K 8.4K 800 1.5K 100 70 9 10K
Parsing and Ratsnest were allied at this point, as were Cathouse and ... Note that Parsing was already beginning work on his third mountain (>2K dust per turn). UUCP eventually retired from playing Ratsnest, leading to a power vacuum at the top which was filled when Predator joined Parsing. A new Ratsnest eventually joined in as well, and the leaders continud to beat up on the smaller players.
By the beginning of July, things were starting to slow down. Even the little countries were becoming quite built up, and the larger countries were showing reluctance to commit the time necessary for full scale attacks with thousands of planes on huge fleets at great distances through mine-laden seas to heavily defended islands. Even when borders opened between the chief opponents, fighting was limited to minor forays. A victory declaration was tendered by Parsing and Predator, but was opposed by a number of smaller countries that lacked the fear brought on by the threat of a few well-placed nukes.
as of Tue Jul 1 12:09:42 1997
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Parsing 255 93% 179K 66K 19K 2.3K 17K 42K 5.0K 3.9K 1.1K 410 200 25K
Predator 240 97% 200K 50K 18K 1.8K 17K 80K 5.2K 4.3K 710 250 110 120K
Ratsnest 205 98% 151K 38K 12K 1.9K 13K 56K 2.1K 4.0K 670 210 70 305K
... 255 100% 233K 65K 10K 1.7K 12K 34K 4.0K 2.4K 360 390 40 35K
Cathouse 200 99% 181K 43K 8.6K 1.4K 22K 24K 3.1K 5.3K 890 170 120 40K
Klingelkn 185 95% 133K 40K 12K 1.5K 10K 49K 2.5K 5.6K 460 180 130 115K
The game plodded on with a resurgence by the adverse powers (... and a time-
poor Cathouse), but the interest currently seems focused on what will happen to the server when maxint (32768) planes are built, estimated to happen later this week. Server slowdown, huge forces and lack of interest seem to have brought this game about as far as it is likely to go.
So, thanks to Pat Loney for running an interesting game, but it looks like it'll be done a bit prematurely.
Daniel Mytelka
Vanuatu
(Langerhans of yesteryear, now re-retired)
as of Tue Jul 29 11:52:03 1997
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Parsing 335 99% 320K 160K 50K 5.1K 58K 78K 6.5K 12K 4.7K 1.0K 630 870K
Predator 345 100% 328K 121K 75K 4.3K 99K 126K 5.0K 11K 4.5K 700 440 550K
... 330 98% 316K 134K 38K 4.1K 34K 50K 4.5K 3.5K 2.6K 1.1K 150 395K
Cathouse 245 97% 227K 79K 22K 3.1K 32K 32K 4.0K 15K 4.0K 400 260 85K
Ratsnest 240 98% 224K 48K 35K 2.2K 26K 41K 6.8K 8.6K 3.2K 550 120 660K
Klingelkn 190 99% 170K 72K 27K 3.1K 29K 62K 2.1K 3.5K 2.1K 460 220 905K
Minnehaha 175 99% 162K 69K 28K 2.2K 33K 75K 5.0K 5.2K 1.6K 330 100 950K
Dristonia 115 100% 111K 25K 24K 2.2K 46K 37K 1.3K 2.6K 1.6K 220 100 240K
Bozer 85 100% 81K 25K 5.4K 940 4.4K 25K 2.0K 3.0K 350 110 40 1.3M
MrRed 160 99% 144K 30K 14K 1.0K 19K 28K 1.9K 3.6K 930 110 70 180K
beep 110 99% 95K 31K 15K 965 16K 12K 1.2K 3.6K 1.3K 150 40 140K
Park Plac 290 58% 1 23K 19K 985 4.7K 43K 3.7K 12K 590 80 90 815K
Vanuatu 57 100% 56K 24K 12K 633 9.0K 12K 994 1.1K 432 50 179 501K
Metallica 35 97% 30K 17K 13K 1.1K 12K 9.2K 950 10 680 140 160 185K
int 40 100% 41K 17K 6.0K 775 4.7K 6.3K 1.0K 1.6K 320 1 40 220K
Yak 55 100% 55K 8.9K 4.2K 470 7.1K 10K 1.1K 1.9K 490 70 30 150K
Tuscabar 15 92% 15K 1.8K 675 55 50 2 0 0 0 1 6 155K
Oktoberfe 15 100% 15K 3.4K 875 100 400 1.1K 0 200 50 50 7 3.3K
Game died as a result of server crash possibly having to do with the huge umber of planes in the game.
(close to final)
as of Tue Jul 29 11:52:03 1997
sects eff civ mil shell gun pet iron dust oil pln ship unit money
Parsing 335 99% 320K 160K 50K 5.1K 58K 78K 6.5K 12K 4.7K 1.0K 630 870K
Predator 345 100% 328K 121K 75K 4.3K 99K 126K 5.0K 11K 4.5K 700 440 550K
... 330 98% 316K 134K 38K 4.1K 34K 50K 4.5K 3.5K 2.6K 1.1K 150 395K
Cathouse 245 97% 227K 79K 22K 3.1K 32K 32K 4.0K 15K 4.0K 400 260 85K
Ratsnest 240 98% 224K 48K 35K 2.2K 26K 41K 6.8K 8.6K 3.2K 550 120 660K
Klingelkn 190 99% 170K 72K 27K 3.1K 29K 62K 2.1K 3.5K 2.1K 460 220 905K
Minnehaha 175 99% 162K 69K 28K 2.2K 33K 75K 5.0K 5.2K 1.6K 330 100 950K
Dristonia 115 100% 111K 25K 24K 2.2K 46K 37K 1.3K 2.6K 1.6K 220 100 240K
Bozer 85 100% 81K 25K 5.4K 940 4.4K 25K 2.0K 3.0K 350 110 40 1.3M
MrRed 160 99% 144K 30K 14K 1.0K 19K 28K 1.9K 3.6K 930 110 70 180K
beep 110 99% 95K 31K 15K 965 16K 12K 1.2K 3.6K 1.3K 150 40 140K
Park Plac 290 58% 1 23K 19K 985 4.7K 43K 3.7K 12K 590 80 90 815K
Vanuatu 57 100% 56K 24K 12K 633 9.0K 12K 994 1.1K 432 50 179 501K
Metallica 35 97% 30K 17K 13K 1.1K 12K 9.2K 950 10 680 140 160 185K
int 40 100% 41K 17K 6.0K 775 4.7K 6.3K 1.0K 1.6K 320 1 40 220K
Yak 55 100% 55K 8.9K 4.2K 470 7.1K 10K 1.1K 1.9K 490 70 30 150K
Tuscabar 15 92% 15K 1.8K 675 55 50 2 0 0 0 1 6 155K
Oktoberfe 15 100% 15K 3.4K 875 100 400 1.1K 0 200 50 50 7 3.3K
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